Analele Universităţii din Oradea, Fascicula Biologie
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Forest Thistle

 

A Short History of Expo-Flora glasshouse

Former glasshouse „Expo-Flora”, a „Plant Biology Didactic Base” today, was completely abandoned after the Revolution, mean while when almost all herbs and woody plants got dried, excepting 3 palms and a coconut tree. In 1996, the glasshouse was taken by University of Oradea, being given to Faculty of Sciences since 1997, to serve the disciplines of plant biology domain, which are studied during the college and master years, because these represent about 30 percent plant biology or connected segments.

Engaged as floral exhibition in 1977, was completely abandoned in 1989 for more then 5 years. This period along all plants have got dried, except 3 palm trees and one coconut tree.

With financial efforts, supported by the University of Oradea, in the summer of 1996, the glasshouse has began to be transformed into a modern high studying place for botanic disciplines as: plant morphology and anatomy, plant taxonomy, plant physiology, plant eco-physiology, cytology, ecology, phyto-pathology, plant biotechnology, plant cells cultures, secondary products of metabolism from plant biomass, etc., and later it became an important edge of Transilvanian research, constituted in the Biological Research Center of the University of Oradea.
The location of the greenhouse at the entrance of Bratianu Park has made from this point a feasible touristico-botanic complex, where our students, with other studious youth from Oradea, but not only, take contact lively with various plant species, which have a didactic, scientific and, not in the last place, an ornamental value (tropical plants). Today, into the glasshouse, the didactic and the plant biology research teams, acknowledged inside and outside Romania for the research contracts, publications and their prestigious journal (The Annals of University of Oradea - Biology Fascicle, indexed in many international databases and rated as B+ by CNCSIS) develop their activites. Our students are involved in the research teams, beside their teachers, and they participate togather at different scientific events, and publish together their articles, some of them internationally appreciated. We are visited many times by numerous scientists and pupil groups from Bihor county and other conterminous counties.

The research team

 

Representative images of our activity


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  • The traditions of higher education in Oradea, metaphorically speaking, go back to time immemorial. This year (2008) there are 228 years since the inauguration of higher education in Oradea and 44 years of continuous higher education in Oradea.
    At the end of the 18th century, "a higher institution for philosophic teaching" is founded in Oradea in 1780, which was to become in 1788 the Faculty of Law, the oldest faculty not only within the Romanian borders but also in a vast region of Eastern Europe.
    In May 1990 a decree of the Romanian Government established the Technical University of Oradea, later called the University of Oradea, and based on impressive traditions of academic life in the town. It was an act of scientific and cultural restoration long expected in the life of the Romanian society, a major gain of the people's Revolution of December 1989, one of the greatest Romanian achievements in Crisana after the Great Union on 1 December 1918. This is how the dream of several generations of scholars came true, clearly expressed by a historian of Oradea: "As regarding the future, the desire of all well-meant Romanians is to establish in Oradea a complete university, the lights of which will shine across the entire western border of Romania".
    Today, the University of Oradea is an integrated institution of higher education of this kind, comprising 18 faculties.
    In May 1990 a decree of the Romanian Government established the Technical University of Oradea, later called the University of Oradea, and based on impressive traditions of academic life in the town. It was an act of scientific and cultural restoration long expected in the life of the Romanian society, a major gain of the people's Revolution of December 1989, one of the greatest Romanian achievements in Crisana after the Great Union on 1 December 1918. This is how the dream of several generations of scholars came true, clearly expressed by a historian of Oradea: "As regarding the future, the desire of all well-meant Romanians is to establish in Oradea a complete university, the lights of which will shine across the entire western border of Romania".
    Today, the University of Oradea is an integrated institution of higher education of this kind, comprising 18 faculties.
    The mission of the University of Oradea is to train and educate on a large scale both the students and also the high education graduates, as well as to approache certain domains of science and technology at high level.
    The structure of the University contains academic education, postgraduate education and scientific research.
    The University of Oradea expanded itself by developing new faculties and research teams, as well as by developing certain specializations inside the existing faculties.
    Education will always be the best long-term investment, as nothing is as precious as the knowledge gained during academic instruction.